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• Chicago Bears coach Mike Ditka personally hand-picked 6’2”, 335 lbs. William Perry in the firstDell. round of the 1985 NFL Draft. Perry Answer: was fresh out of South Carolina’s Clemson A VERY LARGE NUMBER University, where he had earned the nickname • The Edward Kasner mathematician. In when 1938 Refrigerator.was Thea name came about he was asked to come up with a name for a he and a fellow player tried to fit in the same very large number: the numeral one, followed elevator heading to the college laundry faciliby a hundred zeros. He asked his two young ties. His teammate “Man, suggest. you’re about nephews what namesaid, they would as big as a refrigerator,” and the name stuck. • Nine-year-old Milton suggested a name (Perry already weighed 200 lbs. at age 11!). out of the funnies. A cartoon strip character In addition to was his very NFLpopular. career (1985-1994), named Barney Milton chose this defensive tackle and member of “The Barney’s last name for the number. of the Midway” • Monsters Kasner announced the new defense name forrecorded the big two rap records, appeared on the 1980s series number in his next book, altering the spelling. “The A-Team”), and had his own G.I. Joe ac• Sixty years later, Larry Page and Sergey Brin tion figure called Fridge.” 2008, Other Perry developed a new “The internet searchIn engine. was diagnosed a serious disorder search engines with searched each nerve webpage and that sent his life into a tailspin, both physi-a ranked them according to how many times cally andterm financially. 10-year-old specific appearedIn on2011, them,abut Page and Brin discovered designed their searchSuper engine to search boy Perry’s Bowl ring for the specific term and then find outinhow many sale in a sports memorabilia shop a Mickey links there were thatUsing led back to of thathispage, Mantle’s restaurant. $8,500 colwhich resulted in a better search engine. lege fund, the boy and his mother purchased • the They they itneeded name that ringdecided and returned to Perry.a Yet in 2015, reflected how many websites the search the ring was on the auction block again. When enginedidn’t was pay searching. They took the itname Perry the taxes on his home, was of Edward Kasner’s very large number, only seized by the county. At 53, this football great they misspelled it slightly, so it ended up being is barelyexactly able to walk and lives an assisted spelled the same wayinthe cartoon living community. character Barney spelled his last name. What’s it called? (Answer at bottom of page) The term "gridiron" originated COMPUTER FACTSas a description of football's then-characteristic playing • In 1981 Bill Gates said, “640 kb of memory field, which, until the late 1910s–early 1920s, ought to be enough for anybody.” was marked with a series of parallel lines in • aMoore’s Law states computer checkerboard (orthat grid) pattern,performance resembling doubles every 18 to 24 months, and ever since a gridiron. The grid system was abandoned 1971, this has been true. in favor of the system of yard lines and hash • marks HP, Google, Microsoft, were has all used today, but theand termApple "gridiron" started in garages. survived. Answer: Google, from googol.
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